Month: August 2012

Reprinted from Alternet (August 21, 2012) By Eugene Holley, Jr. A recent comment by Biden was racial, but it wasn’t racist. And truth be told, it needed to be said. I know what you’re thinking: There goes gaffe-prone Vice-President Joe Biden again, putting his foot in mouth, saying the wrong thing at the wrong…

Reprinted from Alternet (August 12, 2012) By Paul Buchheit We spend lifetimes developing community assets, then give them away to a corporation for lifetimes to come. A grand delusion has been planted in the minds of Americans, that privately run systems are more efficient and less costly than those in the public sector. Most…

Reprinted from Other Words (August 6, 2012) While charter proponents claim that their schools are less bureaucratic, more efficient, and more effective, the evidence doesn’t really back that up. By Jeff Bale and Sarah Knopp “Back-to-school” sales seem to start earlier every year. These days, more than binders and backpacks are on offer. Now, public schools…

Is it possible that Mitt Romney’s withheld tax returns show he committed voter fraud by lying about his home address in the years 2008 and 2009? That’s the speculation of MS Bellows Jr in his article in the Guardian yesterday: … the Romneys, arbitrarily, refuse to disclose a copy of the returns they filed…